Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [adv] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His intention is to experience an ‘ as if ’ context — in a game two friends may agree to behave as if they are opponents ; in drama two friends may make exactly the same agreement . |
| 2 | Bridgend raised their game against Wales ; now Wales must do precisely the same against New Zealand . |
| 3 | In principle for any word bearing an inflectional affix , it is possible to find contexts where all possible substitutes must contain either the same affix , or one belonging to the same closed set : consider the possible substitutes for walked in Cedric walked home , longer in Mine is longer than yours or books in those books . |
| 4 | Although these cards have different colours they must have approximately the same IR reflectance . |
| 5 | I must seem just the same to him . |
| 6 | A popular health-service argument was that every one of the million or so staff should get exactly the same percentage increase in pay — as though the recruitment and retention position was the same for all . |
| 7 | But you should get roughly the same reaction . |
| 8 | Usually we should get much the same results by applying the same load slowly . |
| 9 | Still try to feel that you are swinging down and through and your follow-through should travel roughly the same distance as your backswing ( photos 3–6 ) . |
| 10 | Crows may do much the same sort of thing as buzzards and eagles but , since there are so many of them , the luckless crows are ignored . |
| 11 | And they 'll cover roughly the same topic areas . |
| 12 | It 'll look less the more branches you draw |
| 13 | Whichever way she 'll look much the same . |
| 14 | The least attractive side for paid golfers must be the continual travel , the airports , the courtesy car that fails to show , the lost baggage , and the certainty that when they get there , they 'll see exactly the same faces , talking the same shop , week after week . |
| 15 | Raising a languid hand towards a grey-haired woman seated in an armchair beside the dog , and who looked as though she might patronise just the same sort of charity shops as Ellie herself , he introduced , ‘ My mother . ’ |
| 16 | We 'll meet here , on the same day , in two years ' time , at seven o'clock , and we 'll have exactly the same things to eat , and tell each other quite frankly in what ways we 've changed . |
| 17 | The the exam , for part of your assessment will be in much the same form it 'll be in two parts er recreating to the two parts of the course and , yo , you 'll get roughly the same number of questions as the than the essay questions that you have with each each semester . |
| 18 | Just as young children will cry and remonstrate or say ‘ do n't leave me ’ , so the adult may use just the same words or convey by their behaviour that this is their worry . |
| 19 | For example , an HP buyer could make much the same sort of claim against his finance company over faulty goods as the Sale of Goods Act would have allowed against a shop . |
| 20 | Mind you , I suppose if the others were in they 'd do exactly the same thing would n't they ? |
| 21 | It was a great experience but I 'm not sure I 'd do precisely the same trip again . ’ |
| 22 | I found that a Parish Church could present almost the same problems as our Congregational ones . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'd feel just the same , ’ Ginny said . |
| 24 | We could do exactly the same with sport , like we could do it with art and theatre and music and , and a hell of a lot of other things , but it 's unfortunately a part of our national political tradition that a large number of us feel some reluctance about doing this . |
| 25 | ‘ I was thinking I 'd like exactly the same thing , ’ she confessed , giving him a radiant smile . |
| 26 | ‘ Dead ’ saints could perform exactly the same function as living ones . |
| 27 | If the planning application , as the gentleman in in the rear says er went through with a cottage , and a house , he 'd have exactly the same |
| 28 | Between his eighth and twelfth years , he was at four Plymouth schools , and then , not even on a regular basis ; he only attended when his grandmother could get together the few pence required to pay his fee . |
| 29 | ‘ I could say exactly the same . |
| 30 | I understand absolutely , I , I could say exactly the same so , do n't . |